Challenged

Chapter One- Lost and Found

The Brotherhood stalked through a thick jungle looking a girl about their age who was supposed to have a great power that Magneto wanted on their side when the time comes. It was unusually hot and humid; they've been searching for hours. Getting lost several time with no sign of this girl. Was Magneto just sending them on a wild goose chase?

Suddenly, they hear Todd's girlish scream and they all sprinted, practically flying over obstacles, towards Todd. "What's wrong Todd?" Lance demanded as he rammed through a shrub bush. Todd couldn't answer- he was stuck in some sort of state of shock- but he pointed up in a large oak tree.

"I don't see any-" Fred cut himself off as he finally noticed a full face mask looking down at them from a low branch. The right half of the mask was turned down into a scowl, while the left side was showing a pleasant grin. The scowling side was black and the smiling side was shiny silver. The black side had what looked like to be wearing silver eyes shadow and lipstick; when the silver side was wearing black eye shadow and lipsticks. Its eyebrow were the same colors as the make ups.

"What the hell?!" Pietro exclaimed. The masked pulled back into the tree and the someone wearing the masked dropped to the lowest branch of the tree in plain view of the slightly stunned boys. She stared skeptically at them not that they could see that. 'Most of them still looked shocked,' she thought to herself, 'except for the snowy blond boy. I can't tell what he's thinking.'

Lance broke himself out of shock. "Who are you?" he asked kindly but with a slight hint of demanding hiding behind the kindness. Her warm brown eyes moved from face to face and stopping on Lance's; she shrugged at him, and making him slightly aggravated. She smirked behind her mask.

Pietro examined what he could see of the girl. She had her raven black hair loosely tied back into two long braids; she had bangs pulled over to the scowling half of the mask almost covering her right eye completely. She was wearing a silver and black uniform. All her skin was covered by her uniform; silver ankle boots, silver fingerless gloves going past her wrists, a matching silver belt that was sideways, the top of her uniform was zipped up to her neck, and her whole outfit was formfitting showing off all her curves.

"Can you even talk, yo?" she nodded.

"Why won't you talk to us, then?" Lance said growing more annoyed with every unanswered question.

"Umm... why don't you come down outta that tree?" Fred said. She shrugged and asked. "Why do you want me out of this tree?" her voice was light, happy, and curious.

"I thought it would… be easier for us to… um… talks," Fred stuttered.

"Or easier to attack me," she hissed threatingly.

"If we wanted to attack you we would have already," Pietro snapped. After a moment he added,

"And what the hell is up with the mask, anyway?"

She chuckled quietly, "Ah like it."

"Why don't you talk off that mask so we can gaze at your pretty face?" he questioned.

"What makes you think ah'm pretty?"

"Well with a body like that, why wouldn't you have a face to match?" he smirked.

"With what I've been through I don't know. And I've never looked in a mirror before. But if you want to see my face…" she trailed off as she loosened to grinning side of her mask and letting it slip down and rest of her chest. She was smirking when she saw their awestruck faces.

"So you boys found something that was lost for other's- meaning me- so want do you want?" she asked impatiently. She pulled the grinning part of her mask back up covering her face back into place; severing their small trance.

"Oh, um, we were wondering if you'd join us?" Lance said slightly unsure if he remembered what was the right things to say.

"What do I get outta joining you?" she demanded.

"A place to stay, food, and an education, yo."

"Hmm… I don't know… I could just find somewhere else to get all them thinks. What do you think I should do, slick?" she directed her question at Pietro.

"Honestly, I don't think you'd fit in well with us."

"I think I will…" she started.